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People must live by work : direct job creation in America, from FDR to Reagan /
People Must Live by Work traces the rise and fall of direct job creation policy--how it was put into practice, how it came within a hairbreadth of becoming a permanent feature of American economic and social administration, and why it has been largely forgotten or discounted today.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. Prehistory of an Idea; Chapter 1. First Objective of Reform: Direct Job Creation in the Committee of Economic Security and the Designing of the New Deal; Chapter 2. People or Projects: The Works Progress Administration Versus the Public Works Administration Reconsidered as Economic Theory and Ideology; Chapter 3. "One Third of a Nation": WPA Direct Job Creation Reconsidered as a Policy Success; Chapter 4. Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment
- Chapter 5. Jobs and Freedom: The Missing Front in the War on Poverty; Chapter 6. The 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Act: The High-Water Mark for Direct Job Creation in "the New Deal That Never Happened"; Conclusion. Jobs and the Policy Imagination; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments